Connecting Cultures
Connecting Cultures, known nationally as New England Survivors of Torture and Trauma (NESTT), is a clinic committed to providing client-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive psychological, social work, legal, and physical therapy services for refugees, New Americans, and asylum seekers living in Vermont. We utilize a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework to provide holistic, integrated, culturally relevant, and evidenced-based services primarily for survivors of torture and trauma. We are a training clinic committed to educating and training emerging service providers in the field.
Clinic phone: 802-656-2661
Website: connectingculturesvt.org
Bridges to Health/Puentes a la Salud
Bridges to Health/Puentes a la Salud is a health outreach program for immigrant/migrant workers and families across Vermont. The program empowers individuals to make timely health decisions while assisting them in navigating an increasingly complex and complicated healthcare system by adapting various components of evidence-based community health worker models to meet identified community needs. They aim to bridge the gaps in access to care for immigrant/migrant communities who are not otherwise supported by existing funded infrastructure.
Website: visit their website
Referral form: find the form
PARTNERS IN ADVOCACY
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO)
The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) supports Vermont asylum seekers in two main ways. First, as the administrator of the State of Vermont-funded Statewide Asylum Seekers Assistance Program (SASAP), CVOEO administers small grants to Vermont-based VT-NH-ASN members, enabling them to provide essential services like housing assistance, job training, and community integration.
Additionally, CVOEO oversees a one-time $30,000 grant to strengthen the network’s capacity and sustainability, as well as offering technical support, shared resources, and information. CVOEO also operates its own small Asylum Seekers Assistance Program, which provides direct emergency funds to asylum seekers to help meet basic needs and cover unexpected expenses during the lengthy application process, a period when they cannot work or access government-funded services.
Website: cvoeo.org
Vermont Asylum Assistance Project
At Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, we work to provide humanitarian status-seekers in Vermont with access to legal knowledge and services; prepare attorneys and advocates to provide no-cost legal services; liaise between the state’s community and organizational support providers, humanitarian status-seekers, and pro bono lawyers and legal workers; and advocate for local, state and national policies that promote immigrants’ rights.
Phone: 802-999-5654
Email: info@vaapvt.org
Website: vaapvt.org
Vermont Law & Graduate School
The Center for Justice Reform at VLGS exists to transform the ways communities engage with each other, respond to harm, and pursue justice. We advance this mission by empowering law and graduate students to think restoratively while equipping them with knowledge and skills to be agents of change. A new pillar of the Center for Justice Reform is the groundbreaking Center for Justice Reform Clinic (“CJRC”), which supports JD and master’s students for three semesters per academic year to repair harms caused by the punitive criminal and immigration legal systems.
CJRC performs the majority of its client work in Burlington, Vermont, at the VLGS Burlington office in order to provide easy access for clients. CJRC also has space on the VLGS campus in South Royalton to ensure as many students as possible have access to classes and high-quality training in essential advocacy skills.
Phone: 802-540-0398
Email: CJRClinic@vermontlaw.edu
Website: Visit the clinic’s website
Association of Africans Living in Vermont
The AALV helps new Americans from all parts of the world gain independence in their new communities through a range of integration services. The on-site legal team offers “affirmative” immigration application assistance including family petitions, work permits, green cards, asylum applications, naturalization, and other forms of humanitarian relief.
Phone: 802-985-3106
Email: info@aalv-vt.org
Website: AALV Legal Services